The Daily Eudemon

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The Daily Eudemon Podcast

A weekly podcast focused on the problem of modernity: Its rejection of the Tao. Related topics: What is the Tao? Why was it rejected? How does its rejection manifest itself in modernity and postmodernity?

  1. 12 AUG

    McGilchrist Explains What Huxley Experienced

    Show notes. If the left hemisphere's grip on people's minds can be loosened, McGilchrist says, their perceptions will change. They will see "into the depth of things . . . all at once [and] recognize them for what they are, no longer overlaid by our projections." When this happens, the conventional notions and mental clichés we live by in our everyday world get shoved aside, and the "hall of mirrors" (a favorite McGilchrist phrase to describe our left-hemispheric perception and experience) will come crashing down as we see things in their naked--beautiful--existence. We then get a taste of Huxley's experience with mescalin. We get a glimpse of what Thoreau saw at Walden. We become like those patrons at Alice's Restaurant. We start to break through that door to the other side.

    18 min

  2. 14 JUL

    The Left Hemisphere Ruins Literature

    Show notes here.

    12 min
  3. Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres, the Death of Chevron, and Fatty Bolger

    4 JUL

    Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres, the Death of Chevron, and Fatty Bolger

    00:10: Thomas Sowell 04:15: The Death of Chevron 11:25: Fatty Bolger Show Notes: Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres The Death of Chevron Fatty Bolger

    16 min

  4. 27 JUN

    Gardening and Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis

    Gardening is just a hobby, and it might not always be practical. But it is arguably the pursuit that postmodern man needs the most. A Copernican revolution in metaphysics explains why. Link to essay from which this podcast is adapted

    18 min

  5. 18/04/2023

    Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Summary

    Modernity is the left hemisphere gone wild. Gnosticism, with its dualistic approach and emphasis on knowledge that gives salvation and control, is a left-hemispheric political religion that thrived during the twentieth century and has today settled in as the dominant cultural disposition that drives public debate. Today’s powerful elites aren’t gnostics, but they ride their left hemispheres like cocaine-fueled jockeys on rabid horses. Because gnosticism and today’s powerful elites are dominated by the left hemisphere, they’re natural allies and they’re coming together in a final effort to do what modernity has been trying to do for centuries: eliminate altogether the Tao part of The Reality Spectrum. It can’t be done, short of eliminating humanity altogether, so the Tao continues to manifest itself in all sorts of ways. Show notes here

    19 min
  6. How to Brand Yourself

    27/02/2023

    How to Brand Yourself

    Pick four traits. The last one must be "victim." It's because we live in a gnostic culture that rails against the evil "structure." If there's a structure, there must be victims of the structure.  Show notes

    6 min
  7. The Gnostic Hates the Structure

    20/02/2023

    The Gnostic Hates the Structure

    Belief in a structure drives the gnostic. Without a structure to defeat, the gnostic has no purpose. Ancient Gnosticism Presupposed an Elaborate Cosmological Structure of Evil Ancient gnosticism used the ancient cosmic system: The earth was in the center, surrounded by the air and spheres: sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and a ring of fixed stars that close it all off. That was more-or-less accepted astronomical science around the time of Christ. It was nothing novel. But the ancient gnostic took the cosmological system one step further: it taught that the cosmological system was a prison. Every ancient gnostic sect taught this idea. Most sects said the cosmos was the creation of an evil god, the “Demiurge,” who created the cosmos as a structure of deception. The Demiurge then outfitted the structure with demons and archons who acted as prison guards to make sure no one got out of this cosmological prison. Gnosticism offered liberation from the prison. The cosmological prison was the sine qua non of gnosticism: If existence wasn’t a prison, the gnostic’s product—knowledge, the map, the plan for escaping the prison—was worthless. Gnosticism without a structural evil to overcome is like football, baseball, or basketball without a ball. Show notes here

    14 min
  8. The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability and His Movement Will Bring It About

    06/02/2023

    The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability and His Movement Will Bring It About

    Parts IV and V of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits Alienation is the Marxist bugbear. He sees alienation everywhere because it emanates from the economic substructure and works its way through the socio-political superstructure. Natural economic evolution would eliminate it, but the ruling classes are suppressing the evolution out of self-interest, so a revolution needs to bring about the evolution. Show notes here

    15 min
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A weekly podcast focused on the problem of modernity: Its rejection of the Tao. Related topics: What is the Tao? Why was it rejected? How does its rejection manifest itself in modernity and postmodernity?

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  • Creator
    Eric Scheske
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodes
    152
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Eric Scheske
  • Show Website
    The Daily Eudemon

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